Hook and eye.



E. J. HUGHES, JR. HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 18, 1912.

Patented Mar.24,1914,

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EDWIN J. HUGHES, JH, or ROME, NEW YORK.

HOOK AND Specification of Letters Patent. Patented lIar. 24, 1914.

Application filed December 18, 1912. Serial No. 737,462.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN J. HUGHES, J r., acitizen of the United States, residing at Home, in the county of Oneidaand State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inHooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment fasteners, and particularly to hooksand eyes; and has for an object to provide interfitting eye and hookelements which will singly present a flat compact mass when the separateportions of the garment are unfastened so as to permit the garment to bepressed without injuring or mutilating the garment; further, theprovision of interfitting hook and eye elements which may beconveniently connccted together and held against casual separation; andthen further, the provision of companion hook and eye elements that maybe each constructed from a single length of wire which will beterminally provided with attaching portions whereby the elements may besecured in place upon the garment with the minimum of labor and with themaximum rapidity.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, aswill be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of thehook; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the eye; Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of the hook, showing the same attached to a portion of the garmentand indicating the present position of the hook; Fig. 4: is an edge Viewof the hook member; and Fig. 5 is a similar view, showing the hookmember connected with the eye member.

With a view to providing a garment fastener which will permit thegarment to be laundried or pressed without destroying the lockingefliciency of the fastening or the destruction or mutilation of thegarment, I employ companion hook and eye elements 1 and 2, respectively,which are adapted for interfitting and interlocking engagement so thatboth singly and collectively they will present a compact fiat mass uponthe garment and thereby eliminate the formation of a bulk in the garmentat the point of attachment thereto of the fastening. The hook element 1is constructed of a single length of resilient wire which is bent onitself to provide an intermediate attaching fastenlng tongue 3 and sidearms 4-, the said arms being curved both laterally and in a -verticaldirection through their length, and

extended into the side portions 5 of the fas toning tongue 3 through themedium of the connecting bight portions 6. The bight portions 6 areangularly disposed relatively 0r offset from the plane of the arms 4-,whereby the fastening tongue 3 lies slightly beyond the plane of saidarms 4 for a purpose to be hereinafter described. The arms 4t areterminally provided with substantially triangular, attaching loops 7,through which a fastening thread may be passed to permit thearticle tobe properly fastened on the garment. The attaching loops 7 arepreferably disposed inwardly of the outer or closed end of the tongue 3so that the garment may be adjusted or manipulated to cause the extremeend of the tongue to be arranged at an angle where it may be readilyinvited into the eye-element 2 of the fastening. The tongue 3 has itsside portions 5 bulged outwardly relatively toward the closed end orbight 8 of the tongue, so as to maximize the width of the tongue at suchpoint where it may lie in immediate contact with the body of the wearer,the said side portions of the tongue being curved vertically and in anopposite direction to the curvature of the arms 4. The eye element 2 ofthe fastening is also constructed of a single length of resilient wirewhich is terminally provided with substantially triangular, attachingloops 9 and an intermediate connecting bar 10, the latter beingsubstantially of V-configuration and bent outwardly from the plane ofthe attaching eyes 9 so as to lie at an outward angle fro-m the garmentwhere it will be exposed directly in the attaching path of the tongue 8of the hook element of the fastening. The sides 5 of the central loopare curved slightly at 11, so as to extend above the curved extremitiesor surfaces 12 upon the arms 4. In this manner under the inherentelasticity of the legs 4: and 5 it will be apparent that the bar 10 ofthe eye-member will be securely confined in the receiving space 13 ofthe member and thereby held against causal separation therefrom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A garment fastenercomprising an eye, a hook, said hook being formed of a single length ofwire bent upon itself to form an intermediate tongue having sideportions disposed in diverging relation toward the outer end of thetongue and connected with each other by a bight portion, the said sideportions being curved vertically throughout their length, and attachingarms curved longitudinally and in a vertical reverse direction to thecurvature of the side porends of the arms, the said arms having theiropposite ends curved directly into the ad- 5 jacent ends of the saidportions of the tongue and defining therewith alined receiving spacesfor the reception of the eye of the fastener.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 20 in presence of twowitnesses.

EDWIN J. HUGHES, JR.

tions of the tongue, the said side portions of the tongue and attachingarms respeo- Witnesses:

tively being of different length so that the SAM. E. WILLIAMS, bight ofthe tongue extends beyond the free L. M. BARBER.

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